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Two full-time nurses at St Anne’s community nursing home in Clifden will lose their jobs at the end of August, according to HSE management.

More than 100 nurses staged a lunchtime demonstration outside University Hospital Galway on Monday in protest over the fact that a shorter working week - due to be put in place in June - has not been implemented at UHG and Merlin Park hospitals.

Formally launched in February this year by Minister for Health Mary Harney, Oak Tree Home Care Ltd, a home-care team established by Carlow woman Michelle and her husband Eugene, has been operating in Carlow since September 2004 and has been growing since its inception.

There were further job cuts at Mayo General Hospital this week with unconfirmed reports that up to 15 nurses will not have their contracts renewed and hours have been cut. In an effort to cut costs before the end of the year, to prevent an estimated €2 million overspend, some wards will also be reduced to a five-day week. Staff morale is reportedly very low at the hospital and workers say these budgetary decisions have no regard for patient care.

One flew over the cuckoo’s next is a play that I didn’t want to see, but I couldn’t stop myself from from going.

NUI Galway’s nursing course is set to have one of the biggest loss next year following the revelation that the number of places in nursing degree programmes will be cut by 16 per cent nationwide.

Local Fine Fåil councillor John Coonan, has recently retired from almost four decades working as a psychiatric nurse with the HSE in Kikenny.

A brand new nursing home facility that had only been in operation since early March of this year, has closed its doors following a shock announcement to staff on Monday.

A local nursing official has slammed the overcrowding “chaos” at University Hospital Galway’s emergency department earlier this week, likening it to “Third World conditions”.

The NUI Galway Students’ Union voted unanimously to condemn the HSE’s “attack” on student nurses.